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Re: multiple lines in the prompt



On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 23:10:06 +0100, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:

> How come Eterm sometimes writes over itself in a two line command (at
> the prompt) but sometimes it correctly creates a new line? It seems to
> happen after I've been in vim/mutt. Is there something I can explicitly
> set so that it always know to write the second line on a new line?

I don't know if I understood your problem correctly. But this is my
prompt, which contains a newline:

# If running interactively, then:
if [ "$PS1" ]; then
    PS1='\u@\h:\w\n===> '
fi

It looks like this:
guettli@sonne:~/Mail
===> 

 thomas

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Thomas Guettler <guettli@thomas-guettler.de>
http://www.thomas-guettler.de



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